Friday Five: misreporting Mastodon, dangerous deepfakes and tanking Twitter
Is Mastodon really tanking? Who’s making a mint from newsletters? And who are these eerie newsreaders spouting propaganda? Your weekend reading, sorted.
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One Man & His Blog reborn: the 2023 edition
This site has a brand new look for its 20th anniversary year. Here's what's changed — and why.
What the heck is happening with Twitter now?
Long form Tweets are here for Twitter Blue subscribers. And there are big changes on the way for Tweedeck and the Twitter API. Some people just love watching platforms burn.
Google’s Bard sings a song to welcome the second age of search
Google is racing Microsoft to transform search with AI chat tools. What does this mean for your traffic?
Five insights for Friday
It’s time to re-evaluate LinkedIn, Google is about to transform itself with AI and why has the NYT suddenly got so self-obsessed?
The death and life of websites
One toxic site is up, when everyone is telling you it's down, and another one has found its way back to the grave. Plus news from Mastodon and Twitter.
Readers Write: on comment toxicity and TikTok arguments
The important figures The Times omitted, evidence of real name toxicity and more feedback from readers
The Times tames trolls with the power of naming
The results of The Times’s experiment in enforcing real names in comments look promising, and the EU starts looking warily at TikTok.
Let the AIs write the quizzes. We’ll do the newsletters…
Buzzfeed's quizzes just read like they're generated by AIs at the moment. But in the future — they will be. At least we can still write newsletters.